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“Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.”

Soul God Dream Law Strange Shadow And Love Breaths Chains Broke Cycles Life And Love Nursing Laws Of Life Sod

Book:Evolution: A Poem

Source: Evolution: A Poem

“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”

“Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ...The prophetic soul, Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.”

World Soul Dream Law Science Humanity Growth Development Accounts Pressure Wide Prophetic

Book:Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma

Source: Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma

“We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.”

World Dream Action Law Lying Energy Existence Normal Ordinary Conscious Independent Everyday Surface Impulse Our Thoughts Our Actions Casual Beneath The Surface

Book:The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue

Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue

“When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow.”

Thinking Way Done Dream Happens Law Pieces Materials Tomorrow Concepts Accomplish Physics Construction New Ways Frontiers Hardware Laws Of Physics

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.”

Knows Real Dream Law Desire My Own Brain Environment Products Appearance Real Life Permanent Awake Distinction Recognise Actuality Transitory

Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

“A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division of tragic existence; it rules over a world without twilight, which knows no effusion, nor the attenuated cares of lyricism; everything must be either waking or dream, truth or darkness, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.”

Knows World Dream Light Care Law Existence Darkness Shadow Unity Tragic Division Waking Twilight Nothingness Reconciliation Flawless Uncompromising Dialectics

Author:Michel Foucault

“This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.”

“I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God's word, or God's world.”

Ifs World Dream Reality Law Agree Saint Invisible Communion Evident

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.”

Dream Law Mother House Wonderful Cost Pet In-laws Mother In Law

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!”

Firsts Soul Use Dream Law Strong Arms Conscience Awe Coward Babbling Strong Arms

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare